Question: 1 ain table 11 first row fourth column the number...

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a)In Table 1.1, first row, fourth column, the number 4.02 appears. Describe this number.

b)In Table 1.1, first row, fifth column, the number 3.62 appears. Describe this number.

c)In the first row, sixth column of Table 1.1, what does the number 0.39 represent?

d) Does this table contain evidence that health insurance causes people to be healthier? Why or why not?

e) Below the numbers mentioned in questions 1 and 2 above are the numbers 0.92 and 1.01, which appear in square brackets [ ] . What do these numbers measure? (Hint: Read the notes at the bottom of the table)

f) Below the number mentioned in question 3 above, 0.04 appears in parentheses. What does this number measure?

Table 1.1
Health and demographic characteristics of insured and uninsured couples in the NHIS

		Husband			Wives
	Some HI (1)	No HI (2)	Difference (3)	Some HI (4)	No HI (5)	Difference (6)
			A. Health
Health index	4.01 [0.93]	3.70 [1.01]	0.31 [0.03]	4.02 [0.92]	3.62 [1.01]	0.39 [0.04]
			B. Characteristic
Nonwhite	0.16	0.17	-0.01 (0.01)	0.15	0.17	-0.02 (0.01)
Age	43.98	41.26	2.71 (0.29)	42.24	39.62	2.62 (0.30)
Education	14.31	11.56	2.74 (0.10)	14.44	11.80	2.64 (0.11)
Family size	3.50	3.98	-0.47 (0.05)	3.49	3.93	-0.43 (0.05)
Employed	0.92	0.85	0.07 (0.01)	0.77	0.56	0.21 (0.02)
Family income	106,467	45,656	60,810 (1,355)	106,212	46,385	59,828 (1,406)
Sample size	8,114	1,281		8,264	1,131

Notes: This table reports average characteristics for insured and uninsured married couples in the 2009 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). Columns (1), (2), (4), and (5) show average characteristics of the group of individuals specified by the column heading. Columns (3) and (6) report the difference between the average characteristic for individuals with and without health insurance (HI). Standard deviations are in brackets; standard errors are reported in parentheses.